1. The historic Blue Cabin is set to be moored near the North Shore and what disingenuous Vancouver body of water?
2. The North Shore Girls Soccer Club – which is a tremendous club by the way, really fantastic players – cancelled their cross-border tournaments this spring over concerns about what U.S. prohibition?
3. When they were accused of poisoning a 60 year old, a Deep Cove couple defended their actions by saying they thought the tall sexagenarian was on their property. Why would that make a difference?
4. In September, customers at Zazou Salon and Academy were allowed to drink a substance not legally available at any other North Shore salon. What is the substance?
5. Between 2005 and 2016, this went down 1.2 per cent in West Vancouver. Jane Austen wrote that having a large one was the best recipe for happiness. Albert Einstein said the tax associated with it was the hardest thing in the world to understand. What is it?
6. Much to CN’s chagrin, West Vancouver has been doing this on a section of the Seawalk for 23 years. What have they been doing? (Hint: Some do it to increase leg strength.)
7. The new North Shore wastewater treatment plant is slated to share something it otherwise would have wasted with 3,700 North Vancouver residents. What will they be sharing?
8. For the first time since the landslides of 2014, chinook salmon were spotted in what fraternal tributary?
9. Three years after getting approval to build a massive development between Bewicke Avenue and Bodwell High School, some City of North Vancouver councillors were upset that Concert Properties had done what instead?
10. A judge ordered Indian Arm neighbours who were suing each other over the use of a communal dock to be _____ until their dispute could be settled by the courts. What were they ordered to be? (Hint: it’s a type of engineering as well as an armed conflict.)
11. When holding an open house to sell her property, an Upper Ambleside homeowner was miffed when Coun. Nora Gambioli showed up and mentioned one of the house’s features. The three-word feature is invisible but you generally feel it when you try to sell a house that has one. What is the feature?
12. The effectiveness of a phone scam prompted the RCMP to remind the tax-paying public the Canada Revenue Agency does not accept which musical cards?
13. Shipbuilders Square hosted a surprise concert featuring which singer? (Hint: her first name is a common Irish surname and her last name once meant son of a clerk.)
14. North Vancouver RCMP handed out hundreds of tickets on Heywood, Shavington and Cloverley streets to put an end to what practice that sounds like a competition for speedy vermin?
15. North Shore Rescue volunteers were confounded when someone stole these from Grouse Mountain. What were they taking? (Hint: Asking what someone’s is used to be considered a signal of romantic interest.)
16. Sticklers for historical accuracy were unsettled to see a Central Lonsdale sculpture depicting what animal?
17. Visitors to West First Street can legally partake in this controversial outdoor activity but the City of North Vancouver asks that they voluntarily agree not to. What is the activity? (Hint: It’s not boxing, but it may make you think of Joe Frazier.)
18. Beginning in October, cars were permitted to do something on B.C. Ferries that passengers are forbidden to do. What can they do?
19. 41 per cent of North Shore workers do this twice a day, every single day of their working lives. What do they do?
20. City of North Vancouver council voted to raise the price of these long-term accommodations in November. Where are the accommodations? (Hint: the lighting is minimal but the neighbours are quiet.)
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ANSWERS: 1. False Creek 2. U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban 3. It was a tree 4. Alcohol 5. Income (median pre-tax household reported income, to be precise) 6. Squatting. 7. Heat 8. Brothers Creek 9. Nothing 10. Civil 11. Notice on title 12. iTunes cards 13. Kelly Clarkson 14. A rat run 15. Signs 16. A camel (extra points if you said dromedary) 17. Smoking 18. Stay on the car deck. 19. Cross a body of water to get here 20. North Vancouver Cemetery. Bonus question: $0. It’s always $0. Also, bonus bonus points if you recognized that a Code Chihuahua snowstorm isn’t a thing.
